The author also made questionable claims about supposedly innate differences between men and women to account for the extreme gender disparity in Google’s workforce. Like most of Silicon Valley’s top tech companies, Google is overwhelmingly male, white and Asian. Google is also engaged in a legal battle with the US Department of Labor, which is investigating the company for wage discrimination. The internal document sparked a heated debate within Google and the tech industry at large, with many Google employees expressing anger and dismay about its contents on Twitter. Google is the latest company to face issues of sexism, discrimination and harassment this year.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 04:56 UTC